It is an unquestionable fact that human beings are capable of making valuable contributions to this world. I would like to focus on one particular contribution: planting trees. Planting trees serves as a reminder that the human drive, even as individuals, is amazingly powerful, and that it can certainly be multiplied. It is better explained through the above quote from Eduardo Galeano.

The transition between seasons – “winter” and “summer”, which in fact are “rainy season” and “dry season in Panama,” – happens at the same time as these much-anticipated holidays: Christmas and New Year.

Around this time each year we get the dry season, school holidays, “cooler” weather, trips to the beach … seasons change, and everybody cheers up! In this bulletin, we will talk about the dry season, now that it has started.

For years, scientists have stated that tropical environments are more stable and predictable than temperate ones, showing no significant variations throughout the year. Those scientists have not lived here. We all have seen and felt the consequences of the variation in precipitation. We have our own seasonality.

The idea of strong-willed people, people who make the decision of running through large territories, is very appealing to many. The reason: there could be a "peregrine" spirit in them.

In 2008, I heard about a group of “runners” who were coming to the City of Knowledge in Panama. They had started their journey on both ends of the Americas. I want to dedicate this Full Moon Bulletin to the VII Journey of Peace and Dignity (Jornada de Paz y Dignidad: JPD), which gathered almost one hundred people representing diverse cultures and similar ideals from different regions in the continent from November 14 - 17, 2016.

[Or the importance of allowing, and even encouraging, little ones to express their curiosity about tadpoles, fireflies, butterflies, beetles, and other types of bugs, considering this is a tropical, diverse region and not a desert, with all due respect to deserts ]